Is This Spawncamping?

[Gadzuko]

Earlier, I was on LM, map was ns_bast.  I was a marine, I didn't know which hive the aliens had and I happened to wander through engine hive with a teammate and discovered that it was their hive.  We were then told to kill the RT, so I checked to see if any aliens were dead/spawning (they were not at that time) and jumped down and merrily knifed away.

Inevitably, an alien or two died and spawned in.  My teammate (I'm not sure what he was doing or what his name was) and I would stop what we were doing and defend ourselves, then go back to knifing the RT.  I think we killed 3 or 4 skulks max before we died, and the RT was low enough that I then was able to run back from MS and kill it with less than one LMG clip.  One of the aliens, a reserve slotter, told me that this was spawncamping by the new rules, so I popped in to read them.

Now, the rules say that if you're unable to kill the structure fast enough then you should get out.  My question is, what is the limit at which it's simply not fast enough?  Is 3 skulks unacceptable, or 4?  This is a very gray area, I'd just like to see it cleared up.  I've always been willing to abide by the rules, but I have to know what to abide by first.

[Malevolent]

Well, to me, it sounds like it wasn't spawncamping. Three skulks aren't much. And if it is considered spawncamping, a lot of people would be kicked/banned for it.

[Dark]

i'ld have to agree with male on this one since you 2 were going after an objective and not just sitting in the hive to hog kills and move up on the scoreboard

though since i'm not an adnub therefore i don't know how much water this holds.  one of the admins will have to clear it up though i think you were fine

[BobTheJanitor]

I would think it was fine. You had a clear goal to accomplish, you obviously were focused on accomplishing it, since it took only one clip to finish it off. It's a grayish area, but no rule is perfect, they all require human intervention to intellegently apply them to any given situation.

[Grimm]

That sounds like an acceptable situation to me.

I think we're running into a problem now where people are jumping too quickly to cry "Spawncamp" on situations like this. Although I guess the best we can do to clarify the issue is define which situations are and which situations are not spawncamping as they come up when they're a little hazy like this.

[Owen]

i find that to be acceptable also. I think what they're trying to get at for spawncamping would be killing all/most of the structures, but not the hive. then killing as they spawn, specifically waiting to just get a high score. The same applies for the aliens when they rape everything, then just go onos and devour from the IP.